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Botany

(76,273 posts)
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 08:11 PM 19 hrs ago

Please tell me what my next door neighbor just told me that we bombed Nigeria today isn't true.

I hate to do a search for that information. The man is insane.

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Please tell me what my next door neighbor just told me that we bombed Nigeria today isn't true. (Original Post) Botany 19 hrs ago OP
AP bombing Nigeria news cbabe 19 hrs ago #1
Gettin us involved in a sectarian in war Africa where the majority of the people are Muslim and not Christian. Botany 19 hrs ago #3
Revenge for slaughter at140 18 hrs ago #6
I really wish I could tell you that 0rganism 19 hrs ago #2
if you mean HE did Skittles 18 hrs ago #4
Nobody tell FIFA mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago #5
From bsky: buzzycrumbhunger 18 hrs ago #7
This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba 18 hrs ago #8
Prometheus Unbound. The Wizard 17 hrs ago #9
Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM usonian 17 hrs ago #10
trump needed another distraction from the Epstein files LetMyPeopleVote 2 hrs ago #11
Nigeria asked for our help Greg_In_SF 2 hrs ago #12

Botany

(76,273 posts)
3. Gettin us involved in a sectarian in war Africa where the majority of the people are Muslim and not Christian.
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 08:19 PM
19 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Dec 25, 2025, 09:05 PM - Edit history (1)



The man is insane.

mahatmakanejeeves

(68,047 posts)
5. Nobody tell FIFA
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 08:22 PM
18 hrs ago

Reposted by Mike Masnick
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social

Paul Gowder
‪@gowder.io‬

Nobody tell FIFA

‪Wesley Morgan‬
‪@wesleymorgan.bsky.social‬
· 1h
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike


7:25 PM · Dec 25, 2025

Nobody tell FIFA

Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) 2025-12-26T00:25:23.353Z


Wesley Morgan
‪@wesleymorgan.bsky.social‬

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike



‪Aaron Rupar‬
‪@atrupar.com‬
· 2h
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”

Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ALT
7:09 PM · Dec 25, 2025

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike

Wesley Morgan (@wesleymorgan.bsky.social) 2025-12-26T00:09:39.023Z

Response to Botany (Original post)

usonian

(23,340 posts)
10. Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 09:31 PM
17 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20729427

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/

President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.
Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.


Reason?

Greg_In_SF

(805 posts)
12. Nigeria asked for our help
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:57 PM
2 hrs ago

it was a joint Nigerian/US mission.

Are you upset that terrorists are being eliminated?

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